CodeCombat with Nick Winter

“It’s not obvious why programming is awesome – you can’t build anything at first, everything is really hard at first – what’s the point? And so we decided, lets make a game so that the engagement is there from the first moment.”

CodeCombat is a multiplayer live coding strategy game where the players write code to control their characters.

Nick Winter is the CEO and Co-founder of CodeCombat.

Questions

Where did you get the idea to build CodeCombat?

How is this different from the gamification at other websites like Code cademy?

How does multiplayer work?

What level of programming skill will someone have when they finish playing through CodeCombat?